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...question is whether, with the publicly funded project's data online, there will be a market for Celera's products. Venter says yes. He'll be offering sophisticated, contamination-free, gilt-edged data, he explains, that include the comparative genomes of other species and the genetics of specific diseases, plus special proprietary software to analyze this genetic mother lode...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers that be will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other way to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls...
Anyone who has ever traveled to Britain knows the re-assuring jangle of a 1[pound] coin. It's weighty stuff, nearly twice the heft of an American quarter, and six times as valuable. It's got a gilt-colored exterior and a serene-looking Queen Elizabeth II on the face. It's a thick coin, about three stacked quarters high, and the British Royal Mint has dressed up the edge with fancy-looking Latin inscriptions ("Spend me wisely," they seem to say). The pound feels like real money. It feels great...
...members of HUPD divide their days into three shifts. Some work the 8 a.m.-to-4 p.m. shift where officers are called to cruise around the B-school to make sure there are no shady characters defiling a gilt statue, an ivy-covered edifice or, God forbid, a Bloomberg box. From 4 p.m. to midnight, officers patrol local liquor vendors searching for underaged, fake ID-toting frosh trying to smile like their 22-year-old brothers. Frequenters of Louie's Superette on Banks Street beware. They close out the night with the midnight-to-8 a.m. graveyard shift...
...beginning to assume: The McCain campaign reported Thursday receiving $810,000 since Monday via its web site, carrying it to an online fund-raising total of $2.2 million. And almost half of that has come from first-time political donors. Of course, that's small change compared with the gilt-edged Bush war chest, which together with the Texas governor's overwhelming support from the Republican establishment may mean McCain's quest remains an impossible dream. Still, Don Quixote has an army...